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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The Tables which follow are inserted at the request of the
Local Government Board and show in detail the deaths of infants
under one year, arranged in monthly age periods and from certain
diseases.
Table XXII. shows the deaths in the whole Borough and the
six following Tables the deaths in each registration sub-district.
The total number of births was 6,967, of which 6,782 were
legitimate and 185 illegitimate, and the total deaths 545.
From the notifiable infectious diseases there was only one
death, from Erysipelas, during the year.
From Measles there were seven deaths, from Whooping
Cough 30, from Diarrhœal diseases 76, from Wasting diseases
243, from Tuberculous diseases 14, from diseases of the Respiratory
Organs 108, from Convulsions 19, from simple Meningitis
six, from Suffocation, overlying, three, from Syphilis nine, and
from all other causes 29.
Compared with 1909 there has been a decrease in the number
of deaths in all the groups with the exception of Syphilis.
In all the deaths with one exception, in Streatham, the cause
of death was certified by a medical man, or by a coroner after
inquest.
40.9 per cent, of the deaths occurred in the first month, compared
with 37.4 in 1909, 32.9 in 1908, and 33.7 in 1907, the increase
being almost wholly due to the number of deaths from
Wasting diseases; 59.4 per cent. in the first three months, compared
with 54.4 in 1909, 55.1 in 1908, and 53 in 1907; and 74.5
per cent. in the first six months, compared with 73, 77.3 and 73.
The Table also shows that 243, or 44.6 per cent. of the deaths
occurred from Wasting diseases, and of these 141, or 58 per cent.
cent. occurred under one month, a decrease of 15.5 per cent. compared
with 1909.
Of the total deaths under one month, viz.:—223, 177 or 80
per cent. occurred from Wasting diseases, compared with 8o.4
per cent. in 1909, 77 per cent. in 1908, and 74 per cent. in i907.